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young couple living in Islington, where their 

 first child, their daughter Edith, was born. This 

 was on March 19th, 1847, and by the time Egbert, 

 their next child, was born, in 1852, they were 

 living at Tottenham. The precincts of Drury 

 Lane, and the crowded streets of London were 

 left behind : henceforth Tegetmeier lived in 

 one or other of the rural suburbs — mainly among 

 the northern heights of London, as near the 

 green fields as he could get. In 1854 we find the 

 family at Willesden, whence they migrated to 

 Wood Green in March, 1855, by which time his 

 experiments in bee-keeping, breeding pigeons, 

 poultry, etc., and his writings on those subjects 

 had not only brought Tegetmeier into prominence 

 in connection therewith, but had given him the 

 recognised position of an authority on these 

 matters. 



